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Want
wɒnt
- have a desire to possess or do (something); wish for
"I want an apple"
desire wish for hope for fancy have a fancy for take a fancy to have an inclination for care for like set one's heart on- wish to speak to (someone)
"Tony wants me in the studio"
- (of a suspected criminal) be sought by the police for questioning
"he is wanted by the police in connection with an arms theft"
- desire (someone) sexually
"I've wanted you since the first moment I saw you"
- desire to be in or out of a particular place or situation
"if anyone wants out, there's the door"
- should or need to do something
"you don't want to believe everything you hear"
- (of a thing) require to be attended to in a specified way
"the wheel wants greasing"
- lack something desirable or essential
"you shall want for nothing while you are with me"
- (chiefly used in expressions of time) lack or be short of (a specified amount or thing)
"it wanted twenty minutes to midnight"
- a lack or deficiency of something
"Victorian houses which are in want of repair"
- the state of being poor and in need of essentials; poverty
"freedom from want"
- a desire for something
"the expression of our wants and desires"